This Fall, Saumya Maheshwari and James Aspden jointly won the prestigious Arthur Fonville Award, presented yearly for a stroke research dissertation by a medical student in Edinburgh or Amsterdam.

The two scientists received this distinction for research conducted at VIC, in the laboratory of Dr. Ruxandra Sîrbulescu, focusing on the use of B cells as an immunomodulatory therapy for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). They attended the award ceremony, and presented their work in a brief joint lecture to the foundation.

The award was established in memory of Arthur Fonville, a medical student from the University of Amsterdam, who worked with the Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage (RUSH) team in Edinburgh between 2011-2013, and passed away on September 21, 2014 from the consequences of heatstroke after a 10 mile run in Amsterdam.

The award also carries financial support towards dissemination of the research at a conference, in a journal, or in further work in the two years after the award.

Keywords: Arthur Fonville Award, Stroke Research, B cell therapy, Immunomodulatory therapy

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